Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,607 6,229 6,730
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.49% 22.45% 20.96%
As % of the General category 32.90% 34.97% 35.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,340 4,172 4,366
10th Percentile £360 £338 £366
25th Percentile £450 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £788 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £535 £575
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 100 112
10th Percentile £14.89 £15.48 £15.02
25th Percentile £19.69 £17.93 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.31 £28.47 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.13% -18.67% +36.13%
75th Percentile £43.96 £55.87 £57.31
90th Percentile £73.63 £78.88 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £28.16 £33.00
% change year-on-year +56.12% -14.67% +28.35%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,165 17,810 18,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.21% 64.19% 58.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,329 11,306 11,300
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.28% -3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,331 1,021 882
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.76 £16.17 £17.63
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -32.93% +27.12%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.40
90th Percentile £78.51 £69.65 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.31% -28.14% +27.27%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 30 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,203 £600 +2.26% 9,567
North of England 0 1,349 £514 +11.08% 1,723
South East -1 746 £500 -2.58% 1,695
North West -2 643 £506 +12.44% 936
Yorkshire 0 628 £519 +3.70% 590
Midlands -2 616 £514 +8.21% 1,005
West Midlands -3 461 £518 -0.43% 630
South West -5 350 £525 -4.55% 874
East of England +4 203 £555 -3.48% 509
East Midlands -2 151 £500 +19.05% 375
North East -5 71 £538 +22.51% 209
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 289 (3.36%) Confluence
2 239 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 80 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 58 (0.67%) Apache
6 42 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.30%) CMS
8 23 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 21 (0.24%) SAS
10 16 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 15 (0.17%) Camunda
11 15 (0.17%) IIS
12 9 (0.10%) CICS
13 8 (0.093%) Ethereum
14 7 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.070%) Appian
15 6 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.058%) WebLogic
16 5 (0.058%) WebSphere
16 5 (0.058%) WordPress
Applications
1 468 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 174 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 127 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 69 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.093%) Trello
9 7 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.081%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.046%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.046%) Sketch
10 4 (0.046%) Windchill
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 337 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 112 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
3 98 (1.14%) NetSuite
3 98 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 78 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
4 78 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
5 65 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
6 61 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
7 49 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
8 46 (0.53%) SAP FI
8 46 (0.53%) Workday HCM
9 38 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 35 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
11 34 (0.40%) Aladdin
11 34 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
12 30 (0.35%) SAP CO
13 26 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
14 25 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
14 25 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
15 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,402 (16.29%) Azure
2 972 (11.29%) AWS
3 586 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 487 (5.66%) GCP
5 313 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 297 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 291 (3.38%) GitHub
8 280 (3.25%) SaaS
9 220 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 216 (2.51%) Entra ID
11 193 (2.24%) Snowflake
12 143 (1.66%) Serverless
13 126 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
14 123 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 118 (1.37%) dbt
16 113 (1.31%) Amazon S3
17 108 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
18 102 (1.19%) OCI
19 101 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
20 95 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 163 (1.89%) Firewall
2 147 (1.71%) Network Security
3 102 (1.19%) VPN
4 78 (0.91%) DNS
5 50 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 48 (0.56%) DHCP
7 47 (0.55%) WAN
8 43 (0.50%) BGP
9 33 (0.38%) SSL
10 32 (0.37%) Multicast
10 32 (0.37%) VLAN
11 28 (0.33%) Wireless
12 26 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.29%) LAN
13 25 (0.29%) OSPF
14 23 (0.27%) SAN
15 21 (0.24%) Internet
16 20 (0.23%) HTTP
17 15 (0.17%) Broadband
18 14 (0.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (5.50%) Power BI
2 254 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 234 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 161 (1.87%) Metadata
5 142 (1.65%) Relational Database
6 121 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 116 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 109 (1.27%) Tableau
9 83 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 69 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 65 (0.76%) Oracle Database
12 62 (0.72%) MongoDB
13 55 (0.64%) Power Query
14 49 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
15 47 (0.55%) Delta Lake
16 46 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (0.45%) Big Data
18 35 (0.41%) RDBMS
19 34 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
19 34 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 573 (6.66%) JIRA
2 275 (3.20%) Git
3 157 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 103 (1.20%) GitLab
5 61 (0.71%) Selenium
6 47 (0.55%) JUnit
7 35 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 34 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 34 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 33 (0.38%) Claude Code
10 31 (0.36%) Maven
10 31 (0.36%) REST Assured
11 29 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 28 (0.33%) Gradle
13 24 (0.28%) Cypress.io
14 23 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (0.26%) ERwin
15 22 (0.26%) Postman
16 18 (0.21%) Mockito
16 18 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 2,711 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 1,870 (21.73%) Banking
3 1,260 (14.64%) Analytical Skills
4 454 (5.27%) Public Sector
5 429 (4.98%) Legal
6 381 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
7 343 (3.99%) Investment Banking
8 334 (3.88%) Retail
9 314 (3.65%) Front Office
10 307 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 285 (3.31%) Financial Institution
12 184 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 183 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 174 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
15 171 (1.99%) Marketing
16 158 (1.84%) Billing
17 157 (1.82%) General Ledger
18 141 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
19 134 (1.56%) Local Government
20 133 (1.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,211 (14.07%) Analyst
2 997 (11.58%) Senior
3 866 (10.06%) Developer
4 856 (9.95%) Lead
5 733 (8.52%) Architect
6 614 (7.13%) Business Analyst
7 588 (6.83%) Project Manager
8 577 (6.70%) Consultant
9 288 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 262 (3.04%) Data Engineer
11 226 (2.63%) Financial Analyst
12 200 (2.32%) Senior Manager
13 184 (2.14%) Senior Developer
14 171 (1.99%) Data Analyst
14 171 (1.99%) Java Developer
14 171 (1.99%) Programme Manager
15 168 (1.95%) IT Manager
16 167 (1.94%) Accountant
17 155 (1.80%) Finance Manager
18 145 (1.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (4.05%) REST
2 348 (4.04%) Terraform
3 259 (3.01%) .NET
4 235 (2.73%) Kafka
5 229 (2.66%) React
6 223 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 174 (2.02%) Middleware
8 165 (1.92%) Spring
9 163 (1.89%) Spring Boot
10 128 (1.49%) PySpark
11 122 (1.42%) RESTful
12 90 (1.05%) OAuth
13 85 (0.99%) JSON
14 84 (0.98%) XML
15 82 (0.95%) Redux
16 79 (0.92%) SOAP
17 75 (0.87%) HTML
18 72 (0.84%) AngularJS
19 71 (0.82%) Node.js
20 69 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 484 (5.62%) Onboarding
2 461 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 418 (4.86%) Cloud Native
4 249 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 220 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 212 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 188 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 183 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 178 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 174 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 165 (1.92%) Derivative
12 163 (1.89%) Data Centre
13 147 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
14 145 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 124 (1.44%) Fixed Income
16 114 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
17 108 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
18 101 (1.17%) Equities
19 93 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
20 90 (1.05%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 352 (4.09%) Windows
2 290 (3.37%) Linux
3 145 (1.68%) Unix
4 85 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 57 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.44%) Android
7 38 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 31 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 30 (0.35%) Solaris
9 30 (0.35%) zOS
10 12 (0.14%) VMS
11 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.12%) AIX
13 7 (0.081%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 5 (0.058%) CentOS
16 4 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,413 (28.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,816 (21.10%) Agile
3 1,177 (13.67%) AI
4 1,164 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
5 1,162 (13.50%) Migration
6 1,015 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,014 (11.78%) CI/CD
8 964 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 908 (10.55%) Analytics
10 902 (10.48%) DevOps
11 848 (9.85%) Decision-Making
12 831 (9.65%) Roadmaps
13 824 (9.57%) ERP
14 780 (9.06%) Validation
15 701 (8.14%) Project Management
16 655 (7.61%) Data Modelling
17 649 (7.54%) Change Management
18 643 (7.47%) User Acceptance Testing
19 629 (7.31%) Risk Management
20 594 (6.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,197 (13.91%) SQL
2 1,090 (12.66%) Python
3 567 (6.59%) Java
4 347 (4.03%) C#
5 272 (3.16%) PowerShell
6 243 (2.82%) JavaScript
7 212 (2.46%) TypeScript
8 146 (1.70%) Bash
9 97 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 79 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 59 (0.69%) C++
11 59 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 58 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 57 (0.66%) Bicep
14 49 (0.57%) Korn
15 47 (0.55%) Go
16 38 (0.44%) Scala
17 35 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 31 (0.36%) Apex Code
18 31 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 682 (7.92%) Security Cleared
2 665 (7.73%) Degree
3 480 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 245 (2.85%) PMP
5 213 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 196 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 182 (2.11%) ACCA
8 160 (1.86%) CIMA
9 131 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 124 (1.44%) CISSP
10 124 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 110 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 77 (0.89%) AWS Certification
13 75 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
14 71 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 60 (0.70%) CISM
16 50 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 44 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 38 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 36 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 633 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 378 (4.39%) QA
3 318 (3.69%) PMO
4 182 (2.11%) GDPR
5 128 (1.49%) NIST
6 110 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 104 (1.21%) GRC
8 100 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 89 (1.03%) IFRS
10 84 (0.98%) SLA
11 62 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 52 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 44 (0.51%) GAAP
14 39 (0.45%) PCI DSS
15 33 (0.38%) SEPA
16 32 (0.37%) Solvency II
17 27 (0.31%) COBIT
18 24 (0.28%) MiFID
19 21 (0.24%) WCAG
20 20 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 230 (2.67%) Docker
2 226 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 86 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 27 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.29%) vSphere
7 20 (0.23%) RACF
8 16 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.10%) NFS
12 7 (0.081%) IAG
13 5 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.046%) ACF2
15 3 (0.035%) GPFS
15 3 (0.035%) KVM
15 3 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
16 2 (0.023%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 410 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 167 (1.94%) Ansible
3 83 (0.96%) Grafana
4 78 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 61 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 60 (0.70%) SCCM
7 58 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (0.29%) Control-M
8 25 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
10 16 (0.19%) Argo
11 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
12 12 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
13 10 (0.12%) Packer
13 10 (0.12%) Tivoli
14 8 (0.093%) Istio
14 8 (0.093%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.093%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.093%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,280 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 737 (8.56%) Oracle
3 684 (7.95%) SAP
4 328 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 318 (3.69%) Databricks
6 220 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 204 (2.37%) Google
8 170 (1.98%) IBM
9 134 (1.56%) Workday
10 132 (1.53%) VMware
11 118 (1.37%) Cisco
12 106 (1.23%) Splunk
13 84 (0.98%) CyberArk
14 81 (0.94%) OpenAI
15 70 (0.81%) Ariba
16 56 (0.65%) Bloomberg
17 53 (0.62%) Murex
18 51 (0.59%) Citrix
19 49 (0.57%) Red Hat
20 48 (0.56%) Sage